AP examines issues inhibiting autonomous vehicles.

An AP (2/4, Krisher, Writer) analysis regarding autonomous vehicles presents five “problems that researchers must overcome to start giving rides without humans behind the wheel.” One of these problems is approval on the part of consumers. According to the AP, a deadly crash involving an autonomous vehicle operated by Uber “rattled consumers who someday will be asked to ride in self-driving vehicles.” The AP says that surveys which were carried out following this incident “showed that drivers are reluctant to give up control to a computer.” A survey “by AAA found that 73 percent of American drivers would be too fearful to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle,” whereas that figure was “63 percent in late 2017.”